Alma LED

Banking and Financial Regulation

Marco Zechini is equity partner of Alma LED and Head of the Banking and Financial Regulation team.

Marco is specialized in regulation of financial intermediaries and technology law, with twenty years of experience in all regulatory and organizational aspects related to banking and financial services. He is also a recognized expert in the Fintech sector.

With a solid corporate background, Marco handles sophisticated corporate transactions providing assistance in all legal, regulatory and organizational aspects related to payment and investment services, with particular focus on the Consolidated Law on Finance and in the field of investment and structuring of public offers for sale and subscription.

Marco regularly assists, inter alia, banks, financial companies, payment institutions, e-money institution, investment and asset management companies, etc in the authorization procedures (before Bank of Italy and Consob) and in the management of relations with the supervisory authorities. He advises on the structuring, realization and negotiation of insure-tech projects, outsourcing agreements in compliance with EBA regulation, joint-venture and partnership agreements between financial intermediaries, and with fintech companies; in the sale and purchase of portfolios and complex transactions pertaining to banking and financial entities; in drafting and negotiation of SPA agreements for the acquisition of qualified and not-qualified stake in fintech companies. He also advises on the structuring of new services and products and provides legal and regulatory assistance, both on the arranger and originator side, as part of securitization transactions, providing support on administrative sanctions proceedings, ad interim measures and sanctions related to the provisions of banking, financial, investment and insurance services.

 He also has extensive experience in the context of outsourcing contracts of operational functions such as the outsourcing of IT processes.

Marco Zechini is equity partner of Alma LED.

Prior to Alma LED, Marco was partner at Orrick (Rome, 2015-2019) and DLA Piper (Rome, 2010-2014).

Italian, English

Marco's memberships include:

- Member of AML committe of AIFI (2009-today);

- Member of the board of Associazione Italiana Istituti di Pagamento e Moneta Elettronica (2005-today);

- Member of the committee of Centro di Ricerca sui Sistemi di Pagamento, University of International Studies, Rome (2006-today);

- Member of Consiglio Didattico e Scientifico of Master “Intermediari, Emittenti e Mercati, Corporate Governance e Controlli”, University La Sapienza, Rome (2002-2004).

1996 - registered in the Italian Order of Journalists, publicists list

1998 - Degree in Law, University "La Sapienza", Rome

1999 - PhD in Financial Market Law, Faculty of Economics and Business, University "La Sapienza", Rome

2002 - admitted to the Italian Bar